Primary+Units+of+Study


 * Units of Study, Primary **
 * Essential Goals: ** When you are finished with this study what do you want your writers to know and be able to do? What kind of writing/thinking will you expect your kids to be doing? This could be captured in one goal but no more than 2-3.

Ex: The children will know how to be a writer in our room?
 * Understandings: ** What are the most important understandings? What do you want students to remember 50 years from now? These understandings may consist of the following: reading habits, strategies, thinking, being part of the writing community, building the writing community, and etc.

-students will develop an identity of their own as writer and be able to talk about it -students will move through a particular process and complete a piece of writing || -writes move through a particular process to complete a piece of writing -writers have particular histories and habits -writers make genre decisions || -students will write narratives in which they recount sequenced events with some detail ||  ||
 * ** Unit of Study ** || ** Essential Goals ** || ** Understandings ** ||
 * Assessment ||  ||   ||
 * Writerly Life || -students will identify with other people in the world who write
 * Launching (Personal Narrative) || -students will learn the procedures and routnnes for working and being a member of a writing workshop
 * Writing for Readers || -students will decide what voice they would like thier writing to have. ||  ||
 * Opinion (Argument) Writing ||  ||   ||
 * Nonfiction (How-to and All About) ||  || -we all have passions and interests that make us experts on topics ||